Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread bob gailer
Saad Javed wrote: The bold was intentional. I was trying to get a shell command (wvdial) to run when a button is pressed. The error I get is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "testgui.py", line 26, in testgui = TestGui() File "testgui.py", line 19, in __init__ self.connect(d

Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread Saad Javed
I implemented a dial function and passed it to the QtCore.SLOT(), which worked fine. Thanks everyone! On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Kent Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Saad Javed wrote: > > The bold was intentional. I was trying to get a shell command (wvdial) to > > run w

Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > I think the SIGNAL('clicked()') bit is probably supposed to be: > > SIGNAL('clicked') I think the parens are correct, see http://docs.huihoo.com/pyqt/pyqt4.html#id10 Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tuto

Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Saad Javed wrote: > The bold was intentional. I was trying to get a shell command (wvdial) to > run when a button is pressed. The error I get is: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "testgui.py", line 26, in > testgui = TestGui() > File "testgui.

Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Gauld
"Saad Javed" wrote self.connect(dial, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'), QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT(os.system('wvdial'))) TypeError: argument 1 of SLOT() has an invalid type Was that helpful? Yes, it confirms my earlier email that you should probably quote the argument to SLOT() Alan G. __

Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Gauld
"Saad Javed" wrote I'm trying to create a simple GUI using pyqt4 in which pressing a button causes execution of a system command. Here's the code, please help me out. I can't figure out whats wrong. Thanks Caveat: I have never used Qt in my life so this is based on guesswork and experience

Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread Saad Javed
The bold was intentional. I was trying to get a shell command (wvdial) to run when a button is pressed. The error I get is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "testgui.py", line 26, in testgui = TestGui() File "testgui.py", line 19, in __init__ self.connect(dial, QtCore.SIGNAL('c

Re: [Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread bob gailer
Saad Javed wrote: Hi Tutors, Hi and welcome to the tutor list. We can help you better if you tell us what the problem is. What did you expect? What did you get? Most of us don't have the time or energy to read code when we don't know what we are looking for. Some of your code is bold. Why?

[Tutor] Help with a simple problem

2009-01-03 Thread Saad Javed
Hi Tutors, I'm trying to create a simple GUI using pyqt4 in which pressing a button causes execution of a system command. Here's the code, please help me out. I can't figure out whats wrong. Thanks import sys import os from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore class TestGui(QtGui.QWidget): def __init_